+100. It would have been very good to have had an Apache polo shirt while I was doing the mentoring workshop last week in India.
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > I'd like to do some things to make it easier for our members and committers > to be ambassadors for Apache, and I'd like to propose a concrete step, > inspired by Roy, from a thread on another list. > > (Eventually it might be fun to have an official Apache Ambassadors program, > which, like the other AA, is a 12 step program. However, I've only figured > out steps one and two: 1) Be Shane (which he's already doing), and 2) Be > like Shane (which encompasses many of the other steps.) ) > > Anyways, here's the concrete suggestion: > > Design and print t-shirts for our committers that plan to attend any event, > containing a word cloud or artistic rendering of project names within the > outline of a huge feather and underlined with a specific message that we > want to convey ... like "I volunteer at Apache / ask me how". > > We can buy them in bulk and send two to each committer that volunteers to > be bright and happy whenever someone asks them about Apache while wearing > the t-shirt. They should not be specific to a single event. > > Here's what we need: > > 1) Several someones to design it, so that we can have a few to vote on for > the first run. Or just a single someone to design something that we select > by default. > 2) Someone to research places (or who already knows of good places) that > will do a tshirt order - say, 100 to start with - and get a price on that. > Preferably something that will be high enough quality to last for more than > one event, and nice enough that folks will actually want to wear it more > than once. > 3) Someone to estimate what it'll cost to ship these out to various people > in various countries. Should someone just take a sufficient number to > events, or should we ship to each individual? Get prices. > 4) Someone to take the combined price and get approval from the foundation > to spend that money. > 5) Someone to take delivery of the tshirts, and volunteer to send them out > to deserving volunteers. (And coordinate with Melissa regarding how to go > about paying for and/or getting reimbursed for shipping.) > 6) Someone to determine what "deserving" means in step 5, and write up the > email to members@ or committers@ > > From where I sit, #1 looks like the hardest step, so I'd be glad to do any > other the steps for which there are not volunteers. Since most of these > steps can be done in parallel, I'm going to assume that someone will step > up for #1, and proceed with other steps as I have time, but please speak up > and claim tasks. > > I figure (and Roy figures) that this is a super-cost-effective way to get > the word out about what the Foundation really is, simply by volunteering to > answer questions about it in informal settings. Particularly when compared > to the cost of getting a booth and handing out swag to people who won't > make eye contact as they walk past. > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com > -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
